The city police on Wednesday arrested 36-year-old auto-rickshaw driver Akula Ashok on the charge of stealing three boxes of mobile phones. According to ACP (East) R. Ramana, the accused stole the boxes while they were being unloaded from the auto-rickshaw on October 10. As per the complaint filed by K. Sanyasi Rao, store manager of a shop at Dabagardens, the boxes were being unloaded by sales executive D. Roop Kumar when the driver fled with the boxes. The booty was worth Rs.1.7 lakh.